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149 releases tracked from 2014 · 212 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Afro house
4 tracks · 4 charting artists · 12 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Based in London and launched in 2014, Aluku Records releases Afro deep, ancestral, tribal, ambient, soulful, Afro tech, and deep house music. The label specializes in music built from traditional instruments, vocals, and chants, constructed with house and techno.
sound
86% one genreAfro House, then Deep House and Organic House
86% of the 149 releases we can tag · 12 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±5 BPM120 BPM typical, 115–125 across four in five releases
149 of 149 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 20.3 per record
4 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
3.2 yrs medianProducers here had a median 3.2 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 30 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
new here Hyenah (Sep) · Jonatan Bäckelie (Sep)
7 of the 12 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
62% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 99 of 159 · 10 various-artists compilations
remixes
6% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
6 of the 102 releases whose credits we can read
5.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
23 of 80
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
1.1
releases a month
26 records in 24 months
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
01 · before · artists released here first
02 · this label
Aluku Records
03 · after · released here next
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 51 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): MoBlack Records (10), Stay True Sounds (9), Madorasindahouse Records (5), My Other Side of the Moon (4), Offering Recordings (4), Open Bar Music (4), Rise Records (4), Defected Records (3)
35 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 212
8 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 8 have pages here
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